Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 8, 1888, Page 9

v s A O o TS R A CVENTEENTH YEAR. OMAHA SUNDA® ==N. B. FALCONER == THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE 'MORNING, APRIL 8, 1888 ~SINTEEN PAGE PAGES 9-16. | UMBER 295, On Monday and All the Week We will make a special sale on odd lots of goods that we want to close out. Special attention is called to the remnants of Dress Goods and Sat- i eens, Torchons, Laces and Calicos, and the very special prices made on Lace Curtains. Torchon Laces) Black Silk Drapery WoolDressGoods At 28¢c 1,000 remnants all wool Dress Goods that we have been selling from 88c to 78c per yard. All on Monday, 25¢ per yard. At 35¢ BOO remnants of the finest wool dress goods we have in stock, all short lengths: we have been sell- ing them at from 78c to_$1.78 per yard. Monday’s price 88c, ——— Lace curtains $1 Per Pair. 100 pairs NottinghamLace Cur- tains, taped, 8} yards long, regu- lar price $2.78; sale price on this lot $1 per pair. $2 Per Pair 40 pairs Nottingham Lace Cur- tains, elegant quality. regular price $4.80, sale price $2. ——— MadrasCurtains $1.57. for Madras Lace Curtains, re- duced from $3.50. $2.25 for Madras Lace Curtains, re- duced from $85. $3.75 for Madras Curtains, reduced from $10 and $18; these are only odd prir: Antique Lace Curtains, $3.50 0dd pairs, reduced from $8. Cluney Lace C_urtains, $5. 0dd pairs, reduced from §7.80. JERSEYS. We will offer again on Monday our stock of Jerseys, in black and fancy fronts at $1.87. These are worthand have been sold at from $2.78 to $B. The lineof sizesis notcomplete in anyof these num- bers and the price is made to clean up the stock. Muslin Underwear Monday, April 9th, we will of- fer special values in_ gowns, skirts, corset covers and drawers Gowns, 78e, worth $1.23. Skirts 26¢, worth BOc only two to a customer Corset Covers, 23c. 89¢, 80c, 78¢ each worth double. Drawers B7¢, worth and sold elsewhere for 85c. Colored Cotton Skirts, 50¢ Three dozen colored cotton skirts, worth from $1 to §2.80, on Monday only B0c. We will also show in our Cloak and Suit Dept.,the best and cheap- estline of Childrens White Dress- es ever shown here. These oods are all new and are con- ined to us. The prices are BOc, $1.00, $1.25, $1.50, $1.78,and noth - ing like them at the price has ever been offered here. Also a line of Children’s Colored Ging- ham, two piece Sailor Suits, at $1.00 in 6, 8 and 10 years. L — Cream Damasks, 50c. 1 Case, 62 inch fine Cream Damasks, at BOc, worth 72c. At 62%c. 1 Case 64 inch Heavy Cream Damask at 62je, worth 80c. “ At 75c. 10 pieces 68 inch, extra fine Cream Damask at 78c¢, worth $1.00. At $1.00. 10 pieces 834 fine Cream Dam- asks at $1.00, worth $1.25. Y Bleached Da;nasks At 75c. 10 pieces 66 inch fine Bleached Damask, at 78¢, worth #1.00. e —— At $1.00. 20 pieces 72 inch fine Double Damask. at $1.00, worth $1.88. New Patterns. 2 White and Red Border Lunch Sets At $3.60. 8-4 White Lunch Cloth with 1 Dozen Daylies’ to Match at $3.60; worth $8.50. At $4.20, 8-10 White or Red Border Lunch Cloth with 1 Dozen Doylies to Match, at $4.20, worth $7.00. At $4,70. 8-12 White or Red Border Lunch Cloth with 1 Dozen Doyles to Match, at $4.70, worth $7.50. Fine Hemstitched Damask Cloths with 1 Dozen 24 inch Dinner Napkins to Match, 8-10, $13.580, worth $28.50. 8-12, £18.00, worth $20.00. 8-14, $16.50, worth $22.50. Glass Linen, At $ll1%c. 1 Case all Linen Glass Toweling allje, worth 18c. Turkish Towels, At 15c. 100 Dozen Brown Turkish Towels at 18¢. worth 28c. Napkins, Napkins, At $1.07%c 100 dozen 5-8 heavy bleached Napkins at $1.07}e, worth $1.88. $1.32%c 100 dozen B-4 German Damask Napkins at $1.824c, worth $1.78 At $1.87%c BO dozen 8-8 heavy German Napkins at $1.87¢¢, worth $2.50. Hemstitched Pillow hams. At $1.19 100 pairs he%sutchcd Pillow Shams at $1.19, reduced from #1.BO and $2. 100 dozen fancy border Doylies at 97¢c, worth $1.80. French Sateens, 25cC. We have a big lot of short lengths of French Sateens, that we will sell Monday at 28c per yard; lengths from 1 to 8 yards, FRENCH ZEPHYR SUITS, §2, worth $5.785, 24 FrenchZephyrdress patterns worth $5.78;, Monday's price, $2. e — Scotch Ginghams, 25c. Allof our Seoteh Ginghamsthat we have been selling at 85¢, 40c and 424c; Monday'’s price 28c¢ per yard. Irish Linen ‘Wash Dress Goods 35¢C A splendid line of choice styles of Irish all linen Wash Dress Goods, worth 48c¢; Monday price, a8ce. EMBROIDERIES. KING'S LOCK STITCH TRIM- MINGS, At Bc. 40 pieces “King's” lock stitched trimmings at Be; reduced from 10¢ and 12je. At 10c. King’s Tock stitch trimmings at 10¢; reduced from 2§c and 30c. Atllc. 40 pieces fine Embroideries at 11e; regular priea 174c. 100 pieces Bmbroideries at 15c¢; Regular price 20¢ and 25¢. Part of the Stock of P. K. Wilson| Lace Importer, that was slightly| damaged by fire and water, we secured at a great reduction. We place them on our counters Mon-| day, we ask customers to comel early as there will be a big rush. At 3xc. 40 pieces Hand made Torchon Laces, worth 8 1-8, at 8jc. At 5c. 60 pieces Hand made Torehon Laces at 5¢, worth 10 At 8 1-3c. 40 pieces Hand made Torchon Lace at 8 1-3, worth 16 2-8, to 20c. 10c. 40 pieces Hand made Torchon Lace at 10¢, worth 20c. At 12%c. 40 pieces Hand made Torchon Lace at 124c, worth 23c. At 16 2-3c. 40 pieces Hand made Torchon é—acs at 18 2-8c¢, worth 28 and Oc. At 20c. 60 pieces Hand made Torchon Laces, worth 88c, at 20c. At 25c. 20 pieces hand made Torchon Laces, at 28c; regular price 40c. Torchon Lace Collars. BOO childrens’ hand made Tor- chon Lace Collars, at 12jc. worth 20c. 800 childrens’ hand made Tor- chon Lace Collars at 2lc each, worth 88c. 800 childrens’ hand made Tor- cl(m)on Lace Collars at 28¢, worth = 280 hand made Torchon Lace Collars at 28c, regular price 485c. 280 hand made Torchon Lace ! Collars at 83c, regular price BOc. 280 hand made Torchon Lace Collars at 8Oc, regular price 85c. i Nets. 8 pieces 27 inch Black Silk Dra- sery Nets, in biack, polka dot and ancy nets, at $1.78, regular price $3.00. 4 pieces 86 and 46 Silk Drapery Nets at lar price $4. 1 piece 86 inch Drapery Nets at price $1.80. inch Black 2.87, regu- Black Polka Dot 98¢, regular Underwear. Ladies’ Gauze Vests at 28¢, reg- ular price 88c. Ladies' Balbt iggan Vestsat 85¢, worth BOe. Mens’Gauze Shirts at 25¢c,worth 88c. Mens'French Balbriggan Shirts gnd Drawers at $1. regular price 1.50. Mens' natural grey Balbriggan glnrls and Drawers at 78¢c, worth 1. 2JOBS IN Childrens’ Hose. At 25c¢c BOO dozen misses’ plain and ribbed fine English and French cotton Hose, in colors and black; these have never been offered be- fore at less than from 40Oc to 8Bc per pair. Monday’s price is 2B8c per pair. At 35c. 80 dozen misses’fine lisle thread and fine cotton Hose, in ribbed and plain, regular price from 60c to $£1,80 per pair. Monday’s price 388c. Black Goods 4 pieces French Cords, Canvas Cloth and fancy Morie Black Dress Goods, that we have been selling from $1 to §1.88. Monday’s price on these four pieces, BSe. BLACK GOODS DEPARTMENT. UP STAIRS, _\N(‘ have moved our Black Goods Department up stairs on the second floor, and we know that ladies, will be well satisfied with the change. The light--so much needed in selecting black goods--is simply perfect; the stock 1s the largest that can be found in the west. On Monday we make some pri= ces on Black Goodsthat our cus- tomers will appreciate, 38¢c. For all wool Black Cashmere, worth 60c. 49c¢. JFor ail wool worth 78c. 65¢. For Black Cashmere worth 90c, 50c. On Monday 10 pieces of 40-inch Black Albatross will be offered etB0c per yard worth 78c. Oc. To getecustomers acquainted with with our Black Goods Depart- ment we will sell 42—inch black Sicilian Cord, Tamese Cloth and Nun’s Veiling, all at 60c, regua lar price g0c. 75¢. 40. Will buy_42—inch all Black French serge, $1.20. Monday’s price Blak Sik Wary vt At 89c. Monday, in our new Black Goods Department we will sell Black Silk warp Henrietta at 80c, worth §1.38. Black Cashmere, that is wool fine worth FOR THE FUN THERE IS INIT. A Barber's Ballad—Why Fishing is Wicked. COLORED MAN'S FILOSOFY. She Was a Good Samaritan—He Gave Them a Pointer—Different Prices —A Puzzler—A Good Place for the Butter. A Barber's Ballad on Spring. Yankee Blade. The joyous birds sing all about, And earth and h young leaves sprout like whiskers out, green grass grows like hair. And may no wintry blast come on To smite them, cold and rude, Like heartless lather east upon The mustache of the dude! May no untimely storm arise Within these skies of blue, To fall upon tho fowers in ficrce, Tempestuous shampoo. Yes, let the trees bud fresh and sweet, Nor Storm King's razor gash, And let the flowers grow prim and neat As any waxed mustache, Take 1t to the Barber's Hotel Mail: Hotel Patron is that butter or lard? Waiter--~Why, sah, that is buttah. Patron (examining the dish closely)— Ah, yes, you’ right; it 1s butter. Bring me a razor, for it needs shaving. Why Fi Texas Colone sir, I never fish, wrong. Chipinone—Don’t like to be so cruel to the fish? Solemn Man—No; T don’t mind hurt- ing the fish, but [ think it is wrong to he. Waiter, ring is Wicked, Solemn Man—No, I think it is decidedly ent Prices. “What are those inquired of the i Detroit Free Press: potatoes worth?” he groce! “Four dollars a bushel.” “Holy smoke! Four dollars We won't eat any more potatoe: *You wanted them to ¢ did you? I can let you have them for ) cents o peck, then, I thought you wanted them or seed,” Guess A Modern Ananias, Hutel Mail, the young man's fai Highly turns to thoughts of clothes; Aundhe wonders how he'll get them, As for two suits still he ow But he'll brace his trusting ta For at lylug he is deft; Then he'll strut in new And the tailor will get left, In the spr , She Was a Good Samaritan, *Will you allow me to 1ot back of the cve barn, » responded the woman, s here are a couple of matehes in case it should turn cold be- fore morning.” Was She a Schoal Marm? Tid Bits: ot another morsel,” ex- claimed the new lady boarder.after oat- ing enough for six able-bodied corl, heavors. “Not another morsel, Really I don’t know what will become of me; | no appetite at all, you know. As my last landlady said, T dor’t eat enough to kset: @ bird alive,” The boarders said nothing, but they all began wondering whether the vird she referred to was an ostrich or Sind- ¢ bad’s roc. He Gave Them a Pointer, Texas Siftings: A smart-stepping cit- izen of Tennessee was in New York a few days ago to see about raising money for a proposed railroad line down in his country, and when asked to explain, he snid: “There’s no explanation This is to be a railroad 200 miles long. *“But about the company?”’ “Oh, that’s been organized and all the officers elected.” ‘What's the eapital?” y mullion dollars.” ““How much stock has been taken?” “About £500 worth.” “What! Only $300 worth.” “That’s all, mister, and if you fellers down here will only piteh in” and gob- ble up the rest of it, we'll go ahead and make things hum. about it. n A Puzzler for the Young Man. Tid Bits: salary was $1,000 a vear and he had just proposed to Miss are Lighthead and 1 been accepted and they were both exquizitely happy, until she said: *And you don’t know how lovely our home will be, George. It shall be a home indeed for you, a place of rest and joy and comfort. T'I1 call the house- kéeper up every morning and— “The housekeep “Yes, yes,denr. Now don't interrupt aughty boy. Tll tell the house- rer to tell the cool to-="" 'he cook?” “Of course. And ] do hope we can geta French cook. 1 love French cook- . And I'd like the diningroom givl “The diningroom giv *Yes, y ['d like a brisk, tidy,rosy cheeked” English diningroom girl, 1 don’t eare 0 much about the echambe maid,” ‘Why, my darling, I'm afe: “N now, you bad old boy, you must let your little girl have her y when it comes to the house se vants, You can engage the butler if you like, and of course you’ll get the onchman; but when it comes to the aundress and seamstress and—why, George, what sadfully long face you have, Idon'tlikeit.” It looked tonger as he sat in his 10x12 room an hour later trying to figure out how the wages of the cook and house- keeper and butler and all the restof them were to he don $19.28 a week. He hasn’t figured it out yet, Colored Man's Filosofy. Detroit I When the meet- ing had been called to order Brother Garduer requested Whalebyne Howker 10 come iorward and take the desk, and wheu he had him there he continued. “Bradder Howker, I ar’ gwine to send you to Toronto on & mission con- surnin’de welfar' of dis elub, Befo’ you go I want to spealks a few furder words to you, *Yes, sali. “In gwine among strangers doan’ be 80 diguified dat people will imagine you own Detroit, an’ yit on de odder hund doan’ be so free an’ easy dut any one will dare poke you in the ribs, = Seek fur de happy medium. “*Doan’ be too fond of talk. De less you say de mo’ you will be credited wid knowin’, *Many a man has byoken his leg on de sidewalk bekase he was ashamed to take a safe path in de middle of de road *“Treat ebery mun like a gentlemun. e P'ress: De cost is a mere trifle, en’ it tickles dair wanit Koep cl'ar of argyment, If a" stran- ! its to expr zer wants to bet on his game turn from him in silent contempt. If de kyars run off de track trus’ in de Lawd. *Be keerful of yer manners at table. Our likin fur a man ean be killed as dead as o doohnail by de way he eats. “De use of cuss words a” to be de- plored. A man wid a elean mouf will be respected, eben among rascals, ou fall ober a_wheelbarrer or saw your neck on a clothes line, devote five min- ssin your feclin’s. Den stop t off. Doan’ be ashamed to carry yer money in yer shoe. Many a member of con- has come to grief by pranein’ und wid his wallet in his pocket. “If you meet a man who he doan’ believe in de facher stat donn’ waste yer breaf to argify de matter. e may be a pusson whom de Lawd created widout a soul, jistas an experiment. Judge Chewso then arose toa question of privilege. and tendered his resigna- tion, to take immediate effect. Upon being asked for an explanation, he re- plied that he had been told he 5 peeted of having come to the meeting with a quart bottle in his pocket, mean- ing to fill the same with kerosene from the club can, Who told you dat?” asked the presi- dent. “White pusson on de market, sah.” “Humph! Brudder Chewso, I hoped dat de soft spot in de top of yer head bad hardened up!” “But dat’s what he said sah!” “S'posin he did? S'posin he'd said dat you w cted of stealing all our money?” “But I nebber brought no bottle heah,” . ‘Nobody cept white man says you did. Sot down, sah! You 5 dun gone an’ lost yer sense, You hev’ not only nebber brought any bottle heah to stenl our rosene, but let me say to you dat hiad you dun so you would hev’ got left. We hev’ bin on the lookout fur jist sich a vacket, an’ de can is allus kept under loer an’ key.” A communieation from the attorney- of Indiana, or at least from his office, inquired if the rights of the col- ored citizens of Detroit in respectto rid- ing on the streetcars was respected They writer had heard that they were not. ‘De seckretary will answer him to de we have de same right as nswered the president, ¢ oblecged to pay far an’ 1 de hind platform. *Wheneber de cull'd folks of de stait of Michigan find deirsclves deprived of any legal right dey wont't wait to hear from Injianny befo' kicki.’ ” - CONNUBIALITIES, The ezarwitch will soon be & the daughter of Prince Nichol negro. In Corea a m trothed to of Monte n wears his hair long and braidea uutil gets marvied, when he is lucky if he can wear any hair at all. The pretty English givl who has promise to marry the rajah of umaboor feels in clined to back out. rujal's subjects threaten to burn her alive After a happy married life of fifty-four years, an old couple living near Hickman, Ky., have soparated because of incompal bility of temper. Husband and wife are each more than seventy years old. A punctual Minnesota maiden lately mar ried a casual acquaintauce, who happened to meet Ler in the church, rather than be kept waiting for her original intended, who was a quarter of au hour behind his appointed time. Do you think Miss Fellows would marry me"said Red Chaska to the chief of his tribe, previous to popping the question. The old war- rior toyed for a moment with the scalps that bung at his side pud then punsively growled : “Wy don’t Chasky yourself, Red?” And he did. Milton J. Barlow, the comedian, quictly took unto himself o better half last week in the person of Lillian Hall, the burlesque actress, Justice Weed of Jersey City tied the knot fast, and John and Edna Vidocq le ceremony and extended con- gratulations, Clifford Iobinson was_marricd to Mis Jennie L. Leonard, in Hebron, Conn., week, and the- bridal tour was made to their future residence in Columbia, a dozen miles on a sled drawn by two pairs of oxen. ame kinds of teams were sent for the d gruests. had courted_an Tlinois wo for eighteen years. When he finally decided that the timeé had come for them to vart, she flung the swill pail after him and br hip, and the) urned a verdict of *not guilty’ ving their seats. been figured out by a st cial that there are thirty-one ¢ every 1,000 bachelors and only eleven crimin- als to every 1,000 married men. From this showing he S that matrimony i nd ought there encouraged by legislation and otherwise. Mr. Stephen Burke, of Minneapolis, has had a ruling ambition since his wmarriage, twenty-five years ago, to have thirteen chi dren in his family, and. by a singular coinci- e, the thirte was born_on the 13th Tuppy he,” s Thor- eail, “whose aspirations never str the home circle,” Solomon Sapp, over whose *“youthful’’ head ecighty-three summers have ‘perspired, has just wedded the widow Stevens, a blushing ture of seventy-five, at Princeton, I1I. ‘The minister, to make things even, confessed to being eighty-four years old 2 local puper alludes to thé bride and groom us Searly settlers. A fortune-teller told Mrs. Dedolfte Hil- i ) hat she would leave her and fall ¢ with another man, Not to arouse the wrath of Fate, Mrs, Hil dinger whaled her hubby, and then skipped with a *dark, handsome Spanish cavalier,” as the fortune-teller pre A young clergyman, not for from Harlem, being on the eve of marriage and not wishing to trouble and of his clerical brethern wrote to the bishop, inquiring if (as he had already published the banns from his own pulpit) lie could murry himself, bishop at once capped the “query with another:—"Can you bury yourself " That settled it. After refusing his pick of many fair and ames, Robert Black, a brother of tne distinguished novelist, has married a maid in Port-au-Prince who is blackern a black cat up a blind alley on a moonless night when the gas is frozen. It is said that the contrast between her brawny neck and the Irish linen collar that encircles it is very marked. Leap-year suggestions: Bachelor J. E. Me- Cullagh, editor St. Liouis (ilobe-Democrat ; age 40; i sk v blonde; makes a specialty of diamonds, fast horses, and satire; natur- ally domestic, he would prove a boon'to any emale heart hungry for mature manly af fection; £0,000 per apnum. Edward J. Me Phelim, dramatie eritie of Chicage 26 years old; in the virgin soil of his poetic affections no blade or flower of love has ever sproutgd or bloomed; dotes on Villon, Shelley, Lamb, Irving,fTerry, Modjeska 1 Louise Monta; atiful v and has the fac christian mar- tyr; income 82,500, Edward D. Cowen, for- eign correspondent of Chicago Daily News (address 184 Rtue de la Grand Prix, Paris) ; a Semetle brunette of Milesian extraction; Just turned of #2; handsome, vivacious, great hearted; extensive traveler; speaks six languages; of exceeding gallantry; tre mendously popular h the ladies; has never loved; income $4,000, Vincent Barna bas Kelly, Washington correspondent Chi- cago Tribune: income $3,000, and age 34; a Tipperary blonde of the old ' Dutch marine school of architecture: has been four winters in Springtield (IlL.) and one winter in Wash- ington; 1 a demoe; reform school. e One of the best Knight Templar charms emblematically that we have seen consists of @ black Maltese cross, upon which rests a nine-pointed blazing star, the centre being the mottoed garter surrounding the red cross on @ ground of green cuawicl. MILLIONS EATEN UP. How Vast Iistates Vanish in Lawyers' Fees. New York Journal: ‘‘Ah! how many are rioting on dead men’s millions!™ “This the exclamation of a con- servative lawyer of prominence in speaking of thé management of large estates which the machinery of the courts is invoked to settl Behind the names of Stevens, Stokes, Cutting, Stewart, Anderson, Hamers ley. Jumel, Colah. Hoyt. Wood, Soutter, Tilden, Gilman, Paine, Lenox and Sh dou lie recitals of more entrancing in- ter nd of strange situations than any port novelist. Property valued at tens of millions of it in litigation in the Lawyers will not sknowledge that they desire to I strife, but that this W their hearts s well the enses nything is lefy openly prolong this 1 purpose is clos known. The estate pa; of litigation, and whil the conscientious attorney finds that it is ne 10 make some fu move *in the inferest of his client It is the old story of dividing the oys- ter—each litigant takes a shell and the lawyer takes the me When a man dies, leaving his he $100,000 to fight over, the proper division of the estate according to the legal conscience is al- al fees and costs, ments and incidentals, 100, re not alw 1s fortunate as this extreme ecase would ind TFacts from the record will show this: An Oriental merchant, who rejoiced in the picturesque name of Bomanjee Byranjee Colah, visited in this city cighteen years He went on o spre and got locked up in a cell. The poli found $40,000 in paper money and gold on his person, and an examination of his room in the Hoffman house showed that he had an additiodal #0,000 there, He was a stranger in u st land, and fair game for the law) Th charged that the Parsee merchant wus a lunatic, and that it was necesss appoint a committee to tak himself and his money, , jr., who is a lawyer in addition ng clerk of the court of common pleas, was the man who got the $100,000 in charge. The P s sent 10 Bombay, where he died, at a cost of 25,000, Mr, | veported to the court t! lance he had on hand was exactly 3, Samuel Wood, after whom the town of Woodshurg, L. 1., is named, died in 1878, leaving a fortune estimated at $2,000,000, By specific bequests he left tives, and the balance » expended in founding a col lege of music. The college will never be founded, for two good reasons—the bequest has heen declared illegal and the money has been eaten up by ex- The little 1tem of $1.400,000 of bhas vanished. Fight differ- ent attorneys and as many eminent counsel have been operating on the es- tate “*in the interest of the college of ic” for ten years past, and this fact tells the story. Jesse Hoyt, the famous prod chant of this city, died in 1882, leaving 8,000,000, He' left the income of $1,250,000 for the use of his widow dur- ing life, and the sam tric daughts, dissatisficd and half & dozen lawyers were called in, among them General Benjamin K. Butler and Roscoe Conk- ling. A young attorney mamed Aaron Kahn, who was in the case, rendered a little bill for $40,746.68, but how much the big guns will receive The estate i legal bonanz: My an Stevens has enriched the lawy Her husband died in 1872, leaving $4.000,000. She received $100,000 outright, besides the income on $1,000,- residence in Fifth and the villa at Newport, whe: tertained the duke of Marlborough last summer. She was not coutent, and there has been a constant scenc of legal squabbles ever since, and there is no probubility thut they will be ended in her lifetim The Duchess D'Auxy seems to like the lawyers Before she beeame a *hess she was Mrs. Charlotte Soutter, wife of Robert Soutter. Her charge: W in the management of the es- upied the courts for yeurs. wion over the millions left by 21J. Tilden is likely to occupy the ance of the present century, = The contest is over the clauses providing for Tilden libraries in this city, Yonkers, and New Lebanon, at a cost of $4,000,- 000. The has tate oc famous Nathaniel Gilman estate been before the courts for thirty 1 the lawyers are not likely to penny is left, The fight over the 1,000,000 left by Cornelius S. V. Roosevelt has just been scttled by the good sense of th and to the chagrin of the lawye. and the same is true of the estat Harvey Sheldon. -~ A HIGHLY-COLORED EASTER. The Choir of the N Church Indulge i New York Jour h Bend Colored Sgg-Throwing. ored pastor of the North Bend, who had just arrived th » want all the congregation went 1o w many days wrestling verything was in readi- eat festival, Iach mem- s sure that his or her make angels pause to with would came, The regular Si over and the con tion was invited to stay and hear anthems. 17rom the church they w to adjourn to a large, empty barn, which refreshments were spread. Every member of that con brought a basket of dyed eg h, they could togt rding to ror eru n old-time custom rth Bend. In fact, the place w umous for its “egg fights,” which were 1ly & mania with the populution, old und young, and one octogenerian wet- ually had his palsied hands h. by others while he took part in the fray. The Te Deum began well, but as it prog d,to the leader’s horror viry Masier's voice, more powerful and discordant than ever, rose high above the others. he choir outed until they were hoarse, with frowning faces turned upon the offender. It was a of voices, from which all melody but the straining was u Zuchariah tore at his hair sharp, cutting notes, without r time or tune, mastered the others, uutil there was a final break-down, and the company adjourncd in a most unamiable mood to the barn. Then the storm that had been gather- ing brok “De eech-owl has done singin’!” sobbed Mary Jane hystericall You dar’ call me a yelled Elvivy Marier, ruined our Simpgon, sereech-owl!” *You impident wot known. | peacack, take that | M 1" She grasped a vom the basket and Simpson’s tearful handful of her eg threw them at A ane wasno coward. She had t hand, and she knew howto use them, and in a second Miss Brown’y visage was like yellow ochre. nd some of the men in- terfered, to retive half-blinded and wholly egged from head to foot. Then the egg-throwing hecame general The Reverend Zachariah, who had hid- den as well as he could, looked forth, on the scene. He wiped his smeared face und tried to make his voice heard, but until the lust egg was smashed and the heated congrezation had sented themselves at the table no one conld he heard in the hubbub which prevailed. Amos Jones came to look for the poor little man and found him crouched in a re- mote corner, “Why, you aint scared, is you, Brad- der Wright?” he said with a loud laugh “Youdon't know rth Bend, sur, Da wasn’t real fightin’ ‘cept “tween Brown and Mary Simpson. De wor jest fun, 3 “Fun on Rev. Zachariah, heathenishl!” “Well, I aint_sayin’ it wor de right time and place,” said the deacon apolo- 1y, “but when onr folks sees eggs, L dey runs plum cra Dar aint 1o stoppin’ em briel hisself comed down Jest us likely he'd getan smashed on him, Come, Brudder ight. De folks is waitin’ dinner fur you to ax a blessin’.” blessing!” ¢ /17 cjnculated the “Tmpious! shameful! ied the indignant pr “No, Brother Jones, I shake the dust from my feet and bid farewell North Bend this 3 You've ruiy ing at his smenred shocked me by your heathenish ways, and 1'd rather stay among the A Indiang than heve. You need a stronger man than I am_ Brother Jones: somebody who whip you out of your ways. That's the kind of gospel for Nerth Bend,” garments); you've A Min One of the most unique of tho many priviate dinners given this season at Delmonico’s took place la the plate of each guest and at the menu was a beautiful rving with an emerald stone set in dinmond: The ring cost $1,000.and as there were eight uests, the menus, with their nove! , must have times a 1 this dinner not surprised, Mr i known to spend e 000 a year on jewelry. ery nearly all of this he distributes around among his acquaintances. Persons who hear of Mr. Law’s generosity and do not know him may think him an improvident gpendthrift,. N he i1sa well- balanced man., It is admitted that every man has a weakness, and presents ing his friends with jewelry is My Law’s w Otherwise he is the most practical of business men, ———— Has Concluded to Keep it Himself, Imlay City (Mich.) Optic: The ge y & Fourth strect ca :markab) i : spure time lest week he went srkshop and procecded to make a handsome wol chest. When it was finished he invited gome friends in to inspect his production, when he discovs eved that it was six inclhes wider than the doorway. Not so, for ness,